Our opinions: We weigh in briefly on missing Troy street lamps, a new effort to reduce HIV, and Albany County’s failed cyberbulling law. Not even a yellow glare seen on Troy streets On this holiday weekend associated with light-show marvels in the sky, the city of Troy needs a reminder that often a good old […]
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Our opinion? Legislation languishes to ban condoms as criminal evidence. What are lawmakers afraid of? Say it again, Velmanette Montgomery — over and over. Explain to your colleagues in the state Legislature just what the point is of your long-stalled legislation to stop treating the possession of condoms as evidence of prostitution. And listen closely, lawmakers, […]
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Our opinion: An Iranian AIDS researcher is free at last. The UAlbany community is enriched by the perseverance of the Alaei brothers. Dr. Arash Alaei will be forever known on the campus of the University at Albany, and in the liberated world beyond it, for his AIDS research. So will his brother, Dr. Kamiar Alaei, […]
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From today’s editorials: The Pope’s latest comments on condoms are a small but hopeful sign that the church is rethinking old policies. _______________________ Last week seems destined to be remembered as a momentous one in the Roman Catholic Church’s long history. There was Pope Benedict XVI, saying what the the Vatican should have decreed decades […]
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